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3/2 Women’s Studies Open House, 3-6pm , DMH 238A

3/2 Max Dashu on Women Shamans from far-ranging cultural backgrounds, ancient to modern, 6pm Boccardo 003.

3/3 Chicanas in the Movimiento – 6-8pm Mexican Heritage Center, 1700 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose

3/3 Film Screening of Arusi: Persian Wedding
Followed by Q&A with Director Marjan Tehrani. 7pm in Eng 189.

3/4 Statewide Day of Action in Support of Education –
Multiple events locally, statewide, nationally

3/ 4 & 3/5 The Vagina Monologues! Morris Daily Auditorium. At 5pm March 4, 5 & 8 pm March 5

3/6 “Womyn Unite” – International Women’s Day March, 11am from Roosevelt Park, Festival continues from 1-4pm.

3/8 Transfigurations, photodocumentary by SJSU alum Jana Marcus, 6pm University Room

3/9 Panel Discussion 7pm, Engr 189 Featuring filmmaker Dr. Annalise Ophelian, Cecilia Chung and Renata J. Razza

3/10 “Trans 101 with America’s Transexual Sweetheart Calpernia Addams”. Followed by panel discussion, noon, University Room. Also resource fair, 12-3pm

3/11 Women’s Studies Alumni Panel, 10:30-11:45. In MLK Library rooms 255/257

3/11 Cabaret Benefit Performance by Calpernia Adams, 7pm University Room

3/17 Sex & Love in the Bay Area with Sexologist Carol Queen, 1:30–2:45 Eng 189

3/17 Literary Reading with Laleh Khadivi, The Age of Orphans, 7pm in MLK Schiro Room, Steinbeck Center, 5th floor.

3/17 Reading with Karen Offen, Globalizing Feminisms, MLK Library, 7pm

3/24 Liz Burke, “Classism: How it Effects Our Lives,” 5pm at MOSAIC

3/25 A Salute to Women Veterans, 5:30pm Lobby Breezeway, County Government Center, 70 W. Hedding Ave, SJ

4/7 Andrew House,”White Privilege: Identifying & Understanding”, at MOSAIC: Cross Cultural Center.

Please join us for conversation, games, music and refreshments with faculty and friends of the Women’s Studies program.  We are happy to kick off a full roster of events for Women’s History Month 2010.  In DMH238A from 3-6pm.

Also please see the left column of the blog (click here) for a Main Index of Women’s History Month events, including WOWI, Transexual Awareness Week, and more… let us know if you have events to be added!

Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 2 for the Women’s Studies Program Open House.  Come share good conversation, games, music, food, and drink as we kick off Women’s History Month and a full roster of events.  In DMH238A from 3-6pm.  Also mark your calendars for these events throughout the month:

3/2 Women’s Studies Open House, 3-6pm  DMH238A
Please join us for conversation, games, music and refreshments with faculty and friends of the Women’s Studies program.

3/3 Chicanas in the Movimiento – 6-8pm  Mexican Heritage Center, 1700 Rock Ave, San Jose
Featuring local activists Elisa Marina Alvarado, Shirley Trevino, Martha Campos, Tamara Alvarado, moderated by Teresa Castellanos.  Part of the MAIZ series on 40 Years of the Chicano Movement in San Jose

3/3  Film Screening of Arusi: Persian Wedding, followed by Q&A with Director Marjan Tehrani, 7pm  Eng189
Marjan Tehrani’s second feature documentary explores the complex and troubled relationship between America, the country of Tehrani’s birth and Iran
Co-sponsored with the Student Association of Middle Eastern Studies

3/6 “Womyn Unite” – International Women’s Day Marcha, 11am
March begins from Roosevelt Park (Santa Clara & 19th) to Biblioteca Latinoamericana, Festival continues from 1-4pm.   Sponsored by South Bay International Women’s Day Network & Cihuatl Tlatocan

3/11 Women’s Studies Alumni Panel, 10:30-11:45  MLK 255/257
Come learn how SJSU Women’s Studies alumni are making change in local communities with Noemi Teppang, Lindsey Mansfield, and Margie Strubel.

3/17 Sex & Love in the Bay Area with Sexologist Carol Queen, 1:30 – 2:45  ENG189
Carol Queen is a writer, educator and cultural sexologist with a Ph.D. in human sexuality.  She is founder of The Center for Sex and Culture, a non-profit sexuality education center and directs Continuing Education at Good Vibrations, the women-owned, worker-owned sex toy shop in San Francisco.

3/17  7pm  Literary Reading with Laleh Khadivi, The Age of Orphans, 7pm MLK Schiro Room, Steinbeck Center, 5th floor
Khadivi’s first novel begins a trilogy that follows the lives of three generations of Kurdish men as they grapple with landlessness, migration and national identity.   Sponsored by the Student Association for Middle Eastern Studies

Are you an incoming or nontraditional LGBTQI student?

Would you like to:

• Get connected to the LGBTQI Community at SJSU?
• Get confidential support?
• Get linked to resources available to you?
• Make new friends?

Peers in PRIDE is a free mentorship program designed for incoming LGBTQI students.  We provide individual support and resources to undergraduates, graduate, and nontraditional students.  For questions or to request more information, contact Angela at peersinprideSJSU@gmail.com
Or drop by the LGBT Resource Center in Building BB anytime!

Here is a flier with this info about the program
And here is a Mentor Request form if you’d like to sign up!

I also offer my thanks to all our students, who are unfortunately shouldering an annual fee increase of over $900 in order to help San José State weather this budget storm. This rapid increase in student fees has resulted in a fundamental change in the balance of how education is funded across the CSU. For the first time in history, funding received from student fees — and other such  revenue sources — exceeds funding received from the State of California. This is unprecedented.

Here is a slide that shows the dramatic shift that has occurred over the past few years.

This increase in fees is a shameful shifting of responsibility for paying for public higher education from the state’s historic responsibility to San José State’s parents and students. This is not right. This is not what any of us wants. This act clearly breaks the promise of California’s higher education master plan. This promise created a system of higher education for the public good that now more and more is shifting to a personal/private responsibility. The master plan is so far out of whack that it is broken. This saddens me beyond belief, and I suspect it saddens all of you as well.

Our historic pride in access to all qualified citizens is now threatened. Our historic pride in serving a diverse population is now threatened. And our historic pride in continuous growth to serve the needs of a growing California is now threatened. So how will San José State deal with these threats going forward? That’s the question. How do we make the best of these challenging circumstances?

See full video and transcript here

By Matt Krupnick, Contra Costa Times
Updated: 08/13/2009 11:03:21 PM PDT

California State University students have asked a San Francisco judge to reverse fee hikes implemented last month after students had paid for the upcoming fall term.

The suit, filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court, closely resembles a successful action against the University of California that resulted in UC paying back about $42 million to former students. The same law firms that represented UC students are involved in the Cal State case.

“I believe it’s exactly the same thing that happened” at UC, said Danielle Leonard, an attorney with the students’ San Francisco firm, Altshuler Berzon. “This option should not have even been on the table.”

The class-action suit accuses the 440,000-student state university system of unfairly raising undergraduate and graduate fees in July, the second time in three months fees were hiked. Students at some campuses had as little as a week to pay the additional money to avoid having their accounts frozen, Leonard said. [Read more →]

As several hundred students shouted “Vote no!” outside the chamber door, California State University trustees Tuesday approved a student fee hike of 20% and agreed to furlough most faculty and staff, including college presidents, for two days each month.

The fee increase, a response to what board Chairman Jeffrey Bleich described as a fiscal “tsunami” powered by the state’s dire budget cuts, will bring average annual statewide charges for Cal State undergraduates to $4,026 a year, not including room, board, books and separate fees charged by each campus.

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On behalf of the Social Science Department and Women’s Studies Program, we would like to conratulate all the Social Science graduates on their tremendous accomplishment! The Social Science Department post-commencement reception will be held Saturday May 23, 2009 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. at the NW Quadrant of the Tower Lawn (adjacent to the MLK Library). Congratulations again!!!

From the Spartan Daily:

A living trust of $1 million was made to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center from two SJSU alumni, the first major gift to SJSU’s Division of Student Affairs under which the LGBT resource center operates.

“It’s a great investment to the future of the LGBT center, friends and allies of the university,” said Bonnie Sugiyama, the assistant director of the university’s LGBT Resource Center. “It is money we will use in the future.”

The gift from philanthropists Larry Arzie and David Stonesifer, both Los Gatos residents and businessmen, is a living trust, which means their estate will transfer $1 million to the center after they pass, Sugiyama said.
The center is currently located in Building BB in room 101, next to the Aquatic Center. [Read more →]